This is how you pay respect

RakoGumi · 1 month

I lost family in the holocaust too, and there is nothing wrong with people stopping to remember it. You can't expect people to just go abroad and stop genocides from happening everywhere. Be realistic. This is a memorial, not a call to arms.

Guitar_player87 · 1 month

YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS UNDER THE RIM

Guitar_player87 · 1 month

Nothing like taking your girlfriends dog to the vet after it pissed itself at 5 am and couldn't walk, only to be notified by the vet that the dog threw up 2 tampons a few hours later, to really seal in that lesson.

alphania · 1 month

close enough

pacmanmeatsuit · 1 month

I was a fucking weird kid. It was hard to have friends in 6th grade, but in 7th and 8th I found a clique of weird kids to hang out with. Now, I'm a fully functioning 25 year old who, by all appearances, is completely well adjusted and "charming" (according to other people). I'm not trying to brag, but being "weird" in your younger years correlates with an above-average intelligence and is simply a phase that you go through.

She will be fine. Just let her be her.

nafarius333 · 1 month

Shit. Like. Reddit.

hysterical_puppet · 1 month

Dont be afraid to make eye contact.
Breathe. You know that saying "you are now manually breathing"? Use it. It will be your best friend.
If you find yourself standing around being anxious, move to a different spot with different people around you.
Carry a glass of water with you so you have something to hold in your hind.
If you find yourself feeling panicky, go to the bathroom and stretch your arms out wide. It will open your chest and widen your breathing, which will prevent an attack.
Exercise before hand, if possible. It will calm your nerves.
Stay away from sugar and stimulants at all cost. They unsettle the mind and will increase negative physiological responses associated with anxiety.
Try drinking some kava tea or some passionflower tea before hand. Both are very soothing drinks.
Simply make it a point to shake hands with people. Find your boss and greet him, then greet whomever he is talking to, it is an easy way to get in with other people.

I hope this helps!

lonelyoutpost · 1 month

baker act her

7didnteat9 · 1 month

*you're

Sobczyszyn · 1 month

i definitely just guffawed as well. It was the upside down cone thing that got me.

TherapeuticTherapist · 1 month

We broke up because I wasn't doing anything with my life and I wanted to run off to a foreign country. I'm now in med school and am not running anywhere.

We have so far hit it off great and have been communicating very openly, which was a struggle for us before.

calendersandclocks · 1 month

Heart as in the chinese medicine heart, not the western biological heart. There is a difference, and I don't have time to explain it to you.

calendersandclocks · 1 month

Try acupuncture. Anxiety falls under disorders of the heart. It can be treated, and at my school there is an entire specialty clinic devoted to anxiety disorders, and it wouldn't exist unless it worked. Give it a shot.

You haven't tried everything yet. Don't give up.

BadBadHubby · 1 month

Well, if you have a massage school in your area, you can call them and either book an appointment in their clinic or ask for a referral to a professional massage therapist. Tell them you aren't looking for a spa-type experience, rather someone who can really address someone super stressed, a true therapist.

And don't go to massage envy.

deezy281 · 1 month

"Babe, I really love you. I get worried about losing you to someone else because I have had experiences in the past which are hard to let go of, but I'm trying. I just want to ask for one thing: patience. When I get worried about that and the past starts creeping into the present, just remind me of this conversation we are having right now and don't be too hard on me, and I'll try my best to acknowledge what I am doing. I don't want to live in the past and have that affect the great moments we are sharing in the present."

Awareness is the first step to change. Congratulations, you are half-way to your goal just by realizing you have an issue. Most people don't discover the issue until the relationship is long dead, if they ever discover it, that is.

tHroWsAwAyS100 · 1 month

Consider yourself lucky, actually. Many girls' first experiences are traumatic. It sounds like you will remember the experience itself as positive. The only part that is troubling you now is your own self-judgment, which is a burden that is created by your own mind. Don't worry about this too much. High school is a temporary time in your life, it will pass, and you will look back on the memory fondly, unlike so many women my age who just complain about being drunk their first time, or being assaulted as children, or any of the other numerous horrible horrible ways to lose your virginity.

tl;dr: stop judging yourself, you are a normal girl in high school who had sex with what seems like a pretty awesome dude.

oTHErside213 · 1 month

It is not impossible to be friends with an ex, but for me, me and my ex didn't have a friendship until 3-4 years after we broke it off. We only communicate by phone and email, but we are friends. It takes time. Just take things day by day.

BadBadHubby · 1 month

She sounds SUPER stressed.

Her body is probably a wreck too, which isn't helping things. Sometimes, and I have found this to be the case for myself, a good bodyworker can do wonders. Find a quality massage therapist for her, and see if she wants to go for once a week sessions. She hates talk therapy, she might really enjoy a more body-oriented approach. She doesn't have to talk about any of the problems she has, either.

BIAS: I am a professional massage therapist

CUCUMB3R · 1 month

Wait...so if we look at something, we are "shooting" photons towards it?

deytookhizjub · 1 month

Agreed, but until something IS proven, we can't really operate from that on any level that is stemming from that claim as the valid truth.

deytookhizjub · 1 month

I think it's important that people are initially curious about DMT through whatever information. Sooner or later people will find out for themselves, like I did, Strassman's true position on the subject. In the meantime, this misinfo gets people to start researching it. Not too worried about the consequences of people philosophizing within their groups of friends and on message boards about this; at least it opens people up to a new and exciting frontier in psychedelic research.

deytookhizjub · 1 month

It is an excellent read, but keep in mind, the doses and method of administration (IV injection) is something you or I will probably never really come close to. It's a super fascinating book, but really only scratches the surface of DMT research. The smoked DMT is nowhere near as powerful as the injected form.

deytookhizjub · 1 month

Not quite...

Rick Strassman himself said that the whole "dmt release during dream/death/birth" thing was pure speculation, and he regards it as a mistake that he ever mentioned it in his book. I would find the source, but I'm lazy.

We know now that DMT is produced in lung tissue and in blood vessels, and there is no evidence that it is produced in the pineal gland.

monkkbfr · 1 month

Just go to Denver and chief on the steps of the capitol

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